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Here are a couple of links that cover this subject: http://members.optushome.com.au/heliosz/jamesbond.html http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2006/11/jame...-history-q.html

Agreeing with Pugwash, selling is not always the hard sell. Sacking a salesman who makes a sale seems a strange business model. Jnkay, If you're after perfect sub, the easiest watch to satisfy it is to get the gen, congrats Bet you keep reading the sub posts.

http://www.newturfers.com/bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?pid=408037 Some blue subs have aged to purple. The link doesn't seem to work properly, but refresh will bring up the post.

A little light reading. More about high end Seiko. Here is a post about a visit to the Shizukuishi Watch Studio which is on Higuchi's community board. Roachman's private collection I want this GS and a bit of Seiko History http://www.timezone.com/library/cjrml/cjrml0023 http://www.timezone.com/library/cjrml/cjrml0024 Japanese Catalogs as PDF http://www.seiko-watch.co.jp/purchase/catalog.html Everyone should have a Seiko .

All the feedback is from sellers, none from buyers.

Here is a recent post from a gen forum about Panerai movements, the suggestion is that the unitas is a direct descendent of the cortebert. http://nawcc-mb.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tp...3442#3221003442

The GMT was available from the factory with a jubilee from around 1970. Before that it was supplied on the oyster.

If this is true it was only for a couple of years at most as they were shown on oysters in early 1990's UK catalogs with the jubilee as an option.

He's having problems deciding if it is the real deal. http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?t=16646

Looks like it's been pulled now.

A frequent question I have never seen an answer apart from the earliest one's are Rolex. http://forums.timezone.com/index.php?t=msg...d=0#msg_1658991

I am not that surprised, a lot of the problems that are highlighted are not that obvious to an untrained eye. Knowing what the faults are make it a lot easier to spot e.g. the hand stack of a GMT II. How mainy salesman are likely to notice that when selling a watch. A good rep, especially in a restaurant with probably less than ideal lighting and a few drinks, would be difficult to spot. When I went to an AD the salesman had a look at my watch and wound it. This is probably because the feel of the how it winds is one of the most obvious differences.

There is one Rolex with a display back, the Rolex Prince, not great pics, but you'll get the idea. great pictures of a couple of classics.

I'm confused, I can't see a CN movement for a 210 on Silix Prime and there is no 210 on Silx Watch. What is the reference for yours?